Disclaimer: See chapter one.
I made all of you guys mad with my little cliffhanger in Chapter 3, didn't I? Sorry, had to do it. Why? I'm not so sure myself. I guess it was because I wanted to see what everybody would say if I left them hanging. Okay, enough of that. Let's find out what happened to Ebony!
~*Chapter 4*~
Ebony wasn't sure what was happening to her. Something kept shooting something straight on her, but she wasn't quite sure what. She kept trying to use her telekinesis or psychic powers, but something was preventing her. She kept seeing purple flashes and black gleams in the basement, and whatever the thing was had turned out the light, so Ebony couldn't see. She felt razor-sharp nails scratching her pale and soft flesh, leaving cuts and scraps. She felt whatever it was tugging on her hair, as if it were trying to pull it out. The thing succeeded in getting a big chuck of stands out of the side, and her scalp began to bleed. More purple flashes were thrown at her and she felt as if she was burning up underneath the flames of the flashes. For a split-second, the thing seemed to stop attacking. Ebony frantically groped everywhere for the light switch. When she finally found it, she switched it on and saw what it was.
"BLACKFIRE!!!" Ebony screamed.
Blackfire saw Ebony, panicked for a second, and disappeared into thin air.
"How-ho-oh," Ebony couldn't finish her sentence. She fell backwards and landed on her head with a hard thump.
The door to the basement swung open.
"Ebony! Ebony, where are you?" Robin shouted, scanning the basement. He, Cyborg, and Starfire saw her lying in a corner.
"There she is!" Cyborg announced. The three Titans ran down to Ebony and knelt at her side. Starfire brushed a hand over her forehead.
"On my planet, when an innocent person is attacked by an intruder, it usually marks that the people are slowly coming to their doom." She said quietly. "I believe that means the same thing on Earth, yes?"
"Sometimes, it does." Robin confirmed. He examined some of the bruises and cuts on Ebony. She was still breathing, so she wasn't hurt that horribly.
"We need to get her back to her normal self." Cyborg explained. He picked Ebony up in his arms and carried her up the stairs followed by Robin, then Starfire.
Up in Raven's room, Beast Boy sat at her bedside watching her sleep. Raven had suffered another one of Blackfire's attacks since Ebony had gone back downstairs. She twitched painfully in her sleep. Beast Boy felt bad. He couldn't do anything about any of this. What was he supposed to do? Watch Raven suffer while Ebony keeps her mouth shut at the wrong time and the rest of the Titans get bombarded with attacks from whoever was behind all this? No. He stood up.
"Don't worry, Raven." He said. "I'll come back for you."
Beast Boy ran out of Raven's room, and rushed downstairs only to see Ebony lying on the couch all cut up and bruised.
"Dude, what happened to her?" he asked.
"Someone just pulled a surprise attack on her." Cyborg replied. "He or she beat the stuffing out of her, too."
"I can tell." Beast Boy began. "She's practically unconscious!" He stopped short. "You mean something's been living in our basement this entire time? When did it come visit!?"
"It must have been plotting something in our basement." Robin tried to be logical. "Ebony went down there to do some meditation and the next thing we knew, she started screaming."
"Okay, I've been upstairs watching Raven this whole time and making sure she was okay," Beast Boy began. "I totally missed something."
"Oh yes," Starfire began. "You did not accompany us when Ebony explained this whole matter. We should tell you what has happened."
The Titans gathered together and told Beast Boy what Ebony had told them. He didn't like what he heard at all.
"So Blackfire's come back to destroy us?" he asked.
"She's broken out of jail." Robin said. "She's been using some sort of magical powers to send Raven horrible visions to make her feel as if she's weak and helpless. She must've been the one that attacked Ebony in the basement."
"She must've figured out that Ebony spilled the beans to us, so she came to destroy Ebony so that she couldn't pass it to Raven." Cyborg reasoned.
"Beans were involved in this?" Starfire asked, confused. "Did Ebony attempt to make us dinner?"
"It's a figure of speech, Star." Beast Boy said flatly. "It means that somebody told on somebody else."
"I do not believe I understand." Starfire continued. "Did Ebony tell the beans she spilled that something happened?"
The rest of the Titans gave up. They couldn't win this one.
"Whatever." Beast Boy said back. "So what are we going to do about all this? I mean, we can't just let Blackfire come and kill us all! We need a plan!"
"What do you think we've been trying to do?" Cyborg asked. "Blackfire's a tricky one. We can't just leap in on her and expect her to surrender."
"Cyborg is correct." Starfire agreed. "Sister is different from me, as we all know."
"So how are we supposed to deal with this one?" Beast Boy asked, frantic for a plan. "RAVEN'S PRACTICALLY DYING UP IN HER ROOM AND WE'RE JUST SITTING HERE!!!"
"You need to calm down." Ebony snapped. The rest of the Titans perked up and looked towards Ebony. "Raven will be fine. While I was resting, I had a vision of you guys having a party. We are going to be okay, all of us."'
"How can you be so sure?" Beast Boy snapped back. "You're just a little girl! You're like, what? Ten years old?"
"I may be little, but I can do great things just like you guys." Ebony stood up for herself. "I've been practicing back in my home world just in case I'd ever have to fight."
"Don't think you can replace Raven!" Beast Boy shouted.
"I don't want to replace my big sister!" Ebony sat up straight with honest eyes. "I just want to fight along side with her and you guys."
"You're not even a teen!" Beast Boy wasn't listening.
"Can't you comprehend what I'm saying or do you have gravel in your ears?" Ebony stood up.
"Guys, quit fighting!" Robin ordered. "We need a way to fix all of this and get Raven back to normal."
"Ebony's just being a parasite." Beast Boy said, crossing his arms. "She thinks she can be one of us just by hanging out with us and acting like us."
"I don't think that at all!" Ebony reasoned.
"Wannabe!" Beast Boy yelled and he stamped his foot. Ebony stepped back as tears formed in her eyes. "Oh no, don't trying pulling that on me. It isn't going to work after all this! You can't just start crying and give me those big eyes and think I'll lay off! Well, guess what? Raven was right about you! You've visited, AND NOW YOU'RE GOING HOME!!!"
More tears filled Ebony's eyes. They rolled down her pale cheeks and onto the floor in big drops. Her lips quivered as Beast Boy came closer and closer to her, cornering her. The rest of the Titans were too shocked to even move. Ebony slid down the wall and gathered herself up in the corner. Beast Boy stood right above her.
It was déjà vu all over again, only this time, the last step came.
Beast Boy brought his hand up high and brought it down straight onto Ebony. In a second, Ebony was lying across the floor, with a giant slap mark plastered across her face.
"You need to get out of here." Beast Boy said darkly. "You're only hurting us."
With that, he turned and left to go upstairs.
"Okay, it was freaky when Raven started laughing that one time, but that was just plain freakier, yes?" Starfire was the first to speak up. Robin and Cyborg nodded in agreement. All three of them tip-toed over to Ebony. They looked down at her and she didn't leave their gaze at all.
"Don't come any closer," Ebony barely whispered. "You'll get hurt."
"Why would we get hurt?" Cyborg asked.
"Anger rising," Ebony whispered again before flinging herself up straight. Her eyes turned bright red and her lavender "cape" wrapped around her in a haunting way.
"Oh no, is this whole thing a family trait or something?" Cyborg stepped back.
"Apparently, Ebony and Raven have more in common than we thought." Starfire joined him. Robin went to step back before black whips flung out of Ebony's hands and wrapped around his ankles. She went to drag him under her cape. (Sound familiar?)
Robin's luck was at its peak at what happened next.
"Ebony! Stop!" Raven shouted, coming down the stairs. Ebony took a deep, raspy breath and everything about her went back to normal. Robin escaped her whips and joined the rest of the Titans.
"What was I just doing?" Ebony asked. She shook her head and looked towards everybody else.
Raven walked over to her and put her hands on her shoulders.
"Ebony, you have to listen to me." She said. "Maybe your emotions like worry, fear, and happiness aren't dangerous, but your anger is. Your anger is probably the most dangerous weapon there is right now."
"It's even more dangerous than yours, Raven?" Cyborg asked.
"Yes, almost three times as dangerous." Raven replied. She faced the rest of her team. "If Ebony's anger gets to its peak or past it, the power she can release can destroy a planet."
"Was that her peak?" Robin asked.
"No," Raven said. "That was just a tiny slice of what Ebony can do. On the other hand, when I did that when we battled Dr. Light; that was almost my peak."
"Beast Boy was incorrect when he said Ebony was just an annoyance and a wannabe. Ebony is very powerful for a little girl." Starfire announced. Raven shot her a surprised look.
"Beast Boy said what?" she asked.
"Beast Boy said that Ebony was a wannabe and a parasite." Starfire explained. "He said that she was just getting in the way and trying to replace you. Then he struck Ebony."
"He did WHAT???" Raven shouted. "He hit my little sister?" Raven shot her gaze at Ebony and saw the strike mark on her face. Raven gave a stubborn look. "Only I'm allowed to do that!" she announced. "I'm a big sister. I have the rights to fight with Ebony, but Beast Boy certainly doesn't!"
Raven stamped off to Beast Boy's room, anger and rage filling her.
Upstairs, Beast Boy was lying on his bed and looking up at the ceiling, a state of confusion and anger filling him. He knew it was wrong to hit Ebony, but he had done it anyway. Why? He didn't know. Was he growing up? Was he just angry? Did he just need to hit something and Ebony was the first thing there? No. It was something else.
Raven swung the door to his room open.
"Beast Boy, you idiot!" she shouted, making her way past the piles of dirty clothes on the floor. "You hit my little sister!"
"You were going to only a little while ago!" he fought back, sitting up.
"Well, at least I had enough self-control to stop!" Raven dissed him badly.
"Your sister is nothing but an annoyance." Beast Boy hesitated in this reply. "I wouldn't be surprised if she was the one that summoned Blackfire here."
"Blackfire?" Raven stopped short. "You mean she's involved in this?"
"Yeah, didn't you know?" Beast Boy asked. His tone of voice had lowered into a more surprised tone than when he was shouting.
"No," Raven replied. "What's Blackfire been doing?"
"She's the one that's been sending you horrible visions of the future in order to make you feel weak and vulnerable." Beast Boy explained. "Ebony told us about it."
Both Raven and Beast Boy stopped short. They finally realized what had really been going on. It wasn't anger or annoyance.
"We're jealous, aren't we?" Raven asked. Beast Boy nodded. "I'm jealous that the rest of the team's been paying so much attention to her."
"And I'm jealous that she's all-knowing and all-powerful or something." Beast Boy added.
The two were silent for a very long time. This situation didn't need words. Both of them could tell that the other one was feeling guilty.
Beast Boy was the first to speak up.
"I can't believe I hit a ten-year-old girl." He whispered. "What's wrong with me?"
"Nothing," Raven replied softly. "Nothing's wrong with you. Something's wrong with me. I should have tried to make her feel more welcome."
"And I should have tried to listen to her." Beast Boy confessed. "If I did, the battle might have already been won by now. So what do we do?"
"We need to apologize." Raven said.
"Can't you just go and apologize for me while I wait here?"
Raven shot Beast Boy a death-stare and shook her head.
"Oh, alright," Beast Boy gave in. He followed Raven downstairs.
Back in the living room of Titans Tower, Ebony stood in the shadows with her arms crossed and a stubborn look on her face. Her violet-blue eyes flashed colors across the room as if they were prisms against a window on a sunny day. Every now and then, tiny tears of anger and sadness fell to the floor and gleamed against the sunlight. She looked up at the door to see it open.
"Ebony, are you still here?" Raven called. "Beast Boy and I have something to tell you."
Ebony didn't move. She closed her eyes and looked away from them. Raven caught sight of her navy-blue hair slightly peeking out of the shadows. She slowly walked over and brought Ebony out and facing them.
"What do you want?" Ebony snapped. "To hit me again?"
"Actually, we wanted to say that we're sorry." Raven confessed. "It was wrong of us to hit you and treat you the way we did."
"Yeah," Beast Boy added. "I guess we're just a little jealous. That's all. I mean, you're this brilliant and powerful little girl, and we're just us."
"No," Ebony said. "You're not just you. Both of you are powerful heroes that the city admires more than anyone. Nobody's just something. We're just different. That's all really. So what if I can predict the future and use telekinesis? That doesn't make me better than anybody else."
"You're really smart, you know that?" Beast Boy asked. "It's no wonder I was jealous of you."
"You just royally dissed yourself!" Ebony announced jokingly. She and Beast Boy burst into a fury of laughs. Raven stood, and actually, for once, smiled.
"Big Sister, are you smiling?" Ebony asked, looking up at Raven.
"Yeah," Raven replied. "I guess I'm happy."
Ebony and Beast Boy smiled along with Raven.
"Well, now we're friends again," Beast Boy began. "But what are we supposed to do about Blackfire and all that great stuff?"
"We need to fight her." Ebony insisted. "Somebody's going to get hurt and somebody won't come out of that battle alive."
"That's just something we need to accept, right?" Raven asked. Ebony nodded.
"Someone's going to die." She confirmed. "I don't know whether it's going to be Blackfire, one of you guys, or me."
"Well, whoever it is, we'll always remember them." Raven announced. Beast Boy nodded his head in agreement. Ebony smiled big.
{Thank you.} She thought.
~*End of Chapter Four*~
I made all of you guys mad with my little cliffhanger in Chapter 3, didn't I? Sorry, had to do it. Why? I'm not so sure myself. I guess it was because I wanted to see what everybody would say if I left them hanging. Okay, enough of that. Let's find out what happened to Ebony!
~*Chapter 4*~
Ebony wasn't sure what was happening to her. Something kept shooting something straight on her, but she wasn't quite sure what. She kept trying to use her telekinesis or psychic powers, but something was preventing her. She kept seeing purple flashes and black gleams in the basement, and whatever the thing was had turned out the light, so Ebony couldn't see. She felt razor-sharp nails scratching her pale and soft flesh, leaving cuts and scraps. She felt whatever it was tugging on her hair, as if it were trying to pull it out. The thing succeeded in getting a big chuck of stands out of the side, and her scalp began to bleed. More purple flashes were thrown at her and she felt as if she was burning up underneath the flames of the flashes. For a split-second, the thing seemed to stop attacking. Ebony frantically groped everywhere for the light switch. When she finally found it, she switched it on and saw what it was.
"BLACKFIRE!!!" Ebony screamed.
Blackfire saw Ebony, panicked for a second, and disappeared into thin air.
"How-ho-oh," Ebony couldn't finish her sentence. She fell backwards and landed on her head with a hard thump.
The door to the basement swung open.
"Ebony! Ebony, where are you?" Robin shouted, scanning the basement. He, Cyborg, and Starfire saw her lying in a corner.
"There she is!" Cyborg announced. The three Titans ran down to Ebony and knelt at her side. Starfire brushed a hand over her forehead.
"On my planet, when an innocent person is attacked by an intruder, it usually marks that the people are slowly coming to their doom." She said quietly. "I believe that means the same thing on Earth, yes?"
"Sometimes, it does." Robin confirmed. He examined some of the bruises and cuts on Ebony. She was still breathing, so she wasn't hurt that horribly.
"We need to get her back to her normal self." Cyborg explained. He picked Ebony up in his arms and carried her up the stairs followed by Robin, then Starfire.
Up in Raven's room, Beast Boy sat at her bedside watching her sleep. Raven had suffered another one of Blackfire's attacks since Ebony had gone back downstairs. She twitched painfully in her sleep. Beast Boy felt bad. He couldn't do anything about any of this. What was he supposed to do? Watch Raven suffer while Ebony keeps her mouth shut at the wrong time and the rest of the Titans get bombarded with attacks from whoever was behind all this? No. He stood up.
"Don't worry, Raven." He said. "I'll come back for you."
Beast Boy ran out of Raven's room, and rushed downstairs only to see Ebony lying on the couch all cut up and bruised.
"Dude, what happened to her?" he asked.
"Someone just pulled a surprise attack on her." Cyborg replied. "He or she beat the stuffing out of her, too."
"I can tell." Beast Boy began. "She's practically unconscious!" He stopped short. "You mean something's been living in our basement this entire time? When did it come visit!?"
"It must have been plotting something in our basement." Robin tried to be logical. "Ebony went down there to do some meditation and the next thing we knew, she started screaming."
"Okay, I've been upstairs watching Raven this whole time and making sure she was okay," Beast Boy began. "I totally missed something."
"Oh yes," Starfire began. "You did not accompany us when Ebony explained this whole matter. We should tell you what has happened."
The Titans gathered together and told Beast Boy what Ebony had told them. He didn't like what he heard at all.
"So Blackfire's come back to destroy us?" he asked.
"She's broken out of jail." Robin said. "She's been using some sort of magical powers to send Raven horrible visions to make her feel as if she's weak and helpless. She must've been the one that attacked Ebony in the basement."
"She must've figured out that Ebony spilled the beans to us, so she came to destroy Ebony so that she couldn't pass it to Raven." Cyborg reasoned.
"Beans were involved in this?" Starfire asked, confused. "Did Ebony attempt to make us dinner?"
"It's a figure of speech, Star." Beast Boy said flatly. "It means that somebody told on somebody else."
"I do not believe I understand." Starfire continued. "Did Ebony tell the beans she spilled that something happened?"
The rest of the Titans gave up. They couldn't win this one.
"Whatever." Beast Boy said back. "So what are we going to do about all this? I mean, we can't just let Blackfire come and kill us all! We need a plan!"
"What do you think we've been trying to do?" Cyborg asked. "Blackfire's a tricky one. We can't just leap in on her and expect her to surrender."
"Cyborg is correct." Starfire agreed. "Sister is different from me, as we all know."
"So how are we supposed to deal with this one?" Beast Boy asked, frantic for a plan. "RAVEN'S PRACTICALLY DYING UP IN HER ROOM AND WE'RE JUST SITTING HERE!!!"
"You need to calm down." Ebony snapped. The rest of the Titans perked up and looked towards Ebony. "Raven will be fine. While I was resting, I had a vision of you guys having a party. We are going to be okay, all of us."'
"How can you be so sure?" Beast Boy snapped back. "You're just a little girl! You're like, what? Ten years old?"
"I may be little, but I can do great things just like you guys." Ebony stood up for herself. "I've been practicing back in my home world just in case I'd ever have to fight."
"Don't think you can replace Raven!" Beast Boy shouted.
"I don't want to replace my big sister!" Ebony sat up straight with honest eyes. "I just want to fight along side with her and you guys."
"You're not even a teen!" Beast Boy wasn't listening.
"Can't you comprehend what I'm saying or do you have gravel in your ears?" Ebony stood up.
"Guys, quit fighting!" Robin ordered. "We need a way to fix all of this and get Raven back to normal."
"Ebony's just being a parasite." Beast Boy said, crossing his arms. "She thinks she can be one of us just by hanging out with us and acting like us."
"I don't think that at all!" Ebony reasoned.
"Wannabe!" Beast Boy yelled and he stamped his foot. Ebony stepped back as tears formed in her eyes. "Oh no, don't trying pulling that on me. It isn't going to work after all this! You can't just start crying and give me those big eyes and think I'll lay off! Well, guess what? Raven was right about you! You've visited, AND NOW YOU'RE GOING HOME!!!"
More tears filled Ebony's eyes. They rolled down her pale cheeks and onto the floor in big drops. Her lips quivered as Beast Boy came closer and closer to her, cornering her. The rest of the Titans were too shocked to even move. Ebony slid down the wall and gathered herself up in the corner. Beast Boy stood right above her.
It was déjà vu all over again, only this time, the last step came.
Beast Boy brought his hand up high and brought it down straight onto Ebony. In a second, Ebony was lying across the floor, with a giant slap mark plastered across her face.
"You need to get out of here." Beast Boy said darkly. "You're only hurting us."
With that, he turned and left to go upstairs.
"Okay, it was freaky when Raven started laughing that one time, but that was just plain freakier, yes?" Starfire was the first to speak up. Robin and Cyborg nodded in agreement. All three of them tip-toed over to Ebony. They looked down at her and she didn't leave their gaze at all.
"Don't come any closer," Ebony barely whispered. "You'll get hurt."
"Why would we get hurt?" Cyborg asked.
"Anger rising," Ebony whispered again before flinging herself up straight. Her eyes turned bright red and her lavender "cape" wrapped around her in a haunting way.
"Oh no, is this whole thing a family trait or something?" Cyborg stepped back.
"Apparently, Ebony and Raven have more in common than we thought." Starfire joined him. Robin went to step back before black whips flung out of Ebony's hands and wrapped around his ankles. She went to drag him under her cape. (Sound familiar?)
Robin's luck was at its peak at what happened next.
"Ebony! Stop!" Raven shouted, coming down the stairs. Ebony took a deep, raspy breath and everything about her went back to normal. Robin escaped her whips and joined the rest of the Titans.
"What was I just doing?" Ebony asked. She shook her head and looked towards everybody else.
Raven walked over to her and put her hands on her shoulders.
"Ebony, you have to listen to me." She said. "Maybe your emotions like worry, fear, and happiness aren't dangerous, but your anger is. Your anger is probably the most dangerous weapon there is right now."
"It's even more dangerous than yours, Raven?" Cyborg asked.
"Yes, almost three times as dangerous." Raven replied. She faced the rest of her team. "If Ebony's anger gets to its peak or past it, the power she can release can destroy a planet."
"Was that her peak?" Robin asked.
"No," Raven said. "That was just a tiny slice of what Ebony can do. On the other hand, when I did that when we battled Dr. Light; that was almost my peak."
"Beast Boy was incorrect when he said Ebony was just an annoyance and a wannabe. Ebony is very powerful for a little girl." Starfire announced. Raven shot her a surprised look.
"Beast Boy said what?" she asked.
"Beast Boy said that Ebony was a wannabe and a parasite." Starfire explained. "He said that she was just getting in the way and trying to replace you. Then he struck Ebony."
"He did WHAT???" Raven shouted. "He hit my little sister?" Raven shot her gaze at Ebony and saw the strike mark on her face. Raven gave a stubborn look. "Only I'm allowed to do that!" she announced. "I'm a big sister. I have the rights to fight with Ebony, but Beast Boy certainly doesn't!"
Raven stamped off to Beast Boy's room, anger and rage filling her.
Upstairs, Beast Boy was lying on his bed and looking up at the ceiling, a state of confusion and anger filling him. He knew it was wrong to hit Ebony, but he had done it anyway. Why? He didn't know. Was he growing up? Was he just angry? Did he just need to hit something and Ebony was the first thing there? No. It was something else.
Raven swung the door to his room open.
"Beast Boy, you idiot!" she shouted, making her way past the piles of dirty clothes on the floor. "You hit my little sister!"
"You were going to only a little while ago!" he fought back, sitting up.
"Well, at least I had enough self-control to stop!" Raven dissed him badly.
"Your sister is nothing but an annoyance." Beast Boy hesitated in this reply. "I wouldn't be surprised if she was the one that summoned Blackfire here."
"Blackfire?" Raven stopped short. "You mean she's involved in this?"
"Yeah, didn't you know?" Beast Boy asked. His tone of voice had lowered into a more surprised tone than when he was shouting.
"No," Raven replied. "What's Blackfire been doing?"
"She's the one that's been sending you horrible visions of the future in order to make you feel weak and vulnerable." Beast Boy explained. "Ebony told us about it."
Both Raven and Beast Boy stopped short. They finally realized what had really been going on. It wasn't anger or annoyance.
"We're jealous, aren't we?" Raven asked. Beast Boy nodded. "I'm jealous that the rest of the team's been paying so much attention to her."
"And I'm jealous that she's all-knowing and all-powerful or something." Beast Boy added.
The two were silent for a very long time. This situation didn't need words. Both of them could tell that the other one was feeling guilty.
Beast Boy was the first to speak up.
"I can't believe I hit a ten-year-old girl." He whispered. "What's wrong with me?"
"Nothing," Raven replied softly. "Nothing's wrong with you. Something's wrong with me. I should have tried to make her feel more welcome."
"And I should have tried to listen to her." Beast Boy confessed. "If I did, the battle might have already been won by now. So what do we do?"
"We need to apologize." Raven said.
"Can't you just go and apologize for me while I wait here?"
Raven shot Beast Boy a death-stare and shook her head.
"Oh, alright," Beast Boy gave in. He followed Raven downstairs.
Back in the living room of Titans Tower, Ebony stood in the shadows with her arms crossed and a stubborn look on her face. Her violet-blue eyes flashed colors across the room as if they were prisms against a window on a sunny day. Every now and then, tiny tears of anger and sadness fell to the floor and gleamed against the sunlight. She looked up at the door to see it open.
"Ebony, are you still here?" Raven called. "Beast Boy and I have something to tell you."
Ebony didn't move. She closed her eyes and looked away from them. Raven caught sight of her navy-blue hair slightly peeking out of the shadows. She slowly walked over and brought Ebony out and facing them.
"What do you want?" Ebony snapped. "To hit me again?"
"Actually, we wanted to say that we're sorry." Raven confessed. "It was wrong of us to hit you and treat you the way we did."
"Yeah," Beast Boy added. "I guess we're just a little jealous. That's all. I mean, you're this brilliant and powerful little girl, and we're just us."
"No," Ebony said. "You're not just you. Both of you are powerful heroes that the city admires more than anyone. Nobody's just something. We're just different. That's all really. So what if I can predict the future and use telekinesis? That doesn't make me better than anybody else."
"You're really smart, you know that?" Beast Boy asked. "It's no wonder I was jealous of you."
"You just royally dissed yourself!" Ebony announced jokingly. She and Beast Boy burst into a fury of laughs. Raven stood, and actually, for once, smiled.
"Big Sister, are you smiling?" Ebony asked, looking up at Raven.
"Yeah," Raven replied. "I guess I'm happy."
Ebony and Beast Boy smiled along with Raven.
"Well, now we're friends again," Beast Boy began. "But what are we supposed to do about Blackfire and all that great stuff?"
"We need to fight her." Ebony insisted. "Somebody's going to get hurt and somebody won't come out of that battle alive."
"That's just something we need to accept, right?" Raven asked. Ebony nodded.
"Someone's going to die." She confirmed. "I don't know whether it's going to be Blackfire, one of you guys, or me."
"Well, whoever it is, we'll always remember them." Raven announced. Beast Boy nodded his head in agreement. Ebony smiled big.
{Thank you.} She thought.
~*End of Chapter Four*~